Diyap Ağa
Diyap Ağa (Yıldırım) ( Zazaisch Diyap Ağa ; * 1852 in Çemişgezek , Dersim , Ottoman Empire ; † 1932 in Turkey ) was a friend of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk , Turkish politician of Zaza and Alevi provenance and member of the first Great Turkish National Assembly (today Tunceli ).
He was born as the son of Seyithan from Ferhatuşağı- Eşiret . As the Agha of his tribe, he received special training. With the Hamidiye regiments he became the commandant of a militia . During the Armenian Genocide, he protected the property and lands of the Armenians in his region, which made him an authority in the region. During the First World War he took part in the fighting against the Russian conquest of Siirt and Bitlis and became a close friend of Commander-in-Chief Mustafa Kemal Pasha . During the Turkish Liberation War , he supported Mustafa Kemal at the Erzurum and Sivas Congresses in 1919. At the first Turkish National Assembly in Ankara in 1920 , he was a member of parliament for Dersim.
In 1922 he suggested that Dersim should split off from Elâzığ and become a separate province, which was also carried out with the help of Mustafa Kemal. When the army of the Kingdom of Greece advanced as far as Ankara in August 1921 and a move of the Turkish Grand National Assembly to Kayseri was being considered, he replied:
"Biz buraya kaçmaya mı geldik, yoksa kavga edip olmeye mi?"
"Did we come here to flee or to die fighting?"
Diyap Ağa rejected an independent Kurdish state throughout his life and opposed the Koçgiri uprising and the Sheikh Said uprising , but he opposed the renaming of Dersim in Tunceli .
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- ↑ a b c d Bir Dersim hikayesi: Diyap Ağa'dan torun Gürsel'e. Retrieved February 1, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Diyap Ağa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Çemişgezek , Dersim |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1932 |
| Place of death | Turkey |